Living a sedentary lifestyle comes with a plethora of health risks: heart disease, decreased immune function, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, just to name a few.
Moving more can decrease these health risk, and provides many benefits such as increased blood flow, released endorphins, increased mental health and calorie burning.
So let’s get moving!
Sounds easy enough, but this can be a difficult goal to achieve for a professional driver.
Here are some of our favorite tips for helping drivers move more:
Whenever you stop your truck for any reason, make 10 laps around it. If you stop 6 times and make 10 laps each time, that’s almost two miles! Did you know approximately 32 laps around the perimeter of an 18 wheeler equals a mile?
Plan your stops around where you can get some type of exercise. TA-Petro, with locations nationwide, has FREE indoor fitness rooms, outdoor exercise areas, walking/running trails, basketball hoops, bean bag toss, and horseshoe pits at many of their locations.
The Rolling Strong mobile app has TA exercise facilities featured with a GPS locator so you can locate the nearest one available from where you are.
The Rolling Strong Fit System features resistance bands designed to hook into the cab for a full body workout. Add the Rolling Strong Stepper and you can combine resistance training and cardio without having to leave the truck!
Meet Steve Macintosh, a driver working with a Rolling Strong CDL Coach who has incorporated exercise into his day. Since then, he has lost 10 lbs. Steve also cleaned up his meal choices but allows himself one cheat day a week. Knowing he can always eat some of his favorite indulgences on Sundays has helped him mentally stick to better options throughout the week.